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b'Don\\xa0DiLego\\xa0has managed to carve out\\xa0a sound that is at once both nostalgic in it\\u2019s Americana leanings and\\xa0modern in it\\u2019s approach to creating a sonic landscape. Ripe with reverb, detuned guitars, banjo, and pedal steel,\\xa0DiLego\\u2019s\\xa0most recent recordings seem to fully realize what he began exploring on his first release, The\\xa0Lonestar\\xa0Hitchhiker, in 2001.The follow-up record, The\\xa0Lonestar\\xa0Companion, was released after his release from Universal, to which Rollingstone.com called him \\u201cAlt-country\\u2019s next poster boy.\\u201d\\xa0His 3rd\\xa0release, Photographs of 1971, saw him move towards that sound of combining his penchant for the sounds\\xa0of country with the lyrical and melodic hooks of his pop heroes. Following that album\\u2019s release in 2006, Don\\u2019s focus moved to\\xa0production, as he had been building a studio outside his hometown of NYC. He began work on a record with\\xa0Bree\\xa0Sharp, and released two\\xa0albums as the electro-twang duo Beautiful Small Machines, which became\\xa0renown\\xa0for their banjo-laden cover of M.I.A.\\u2019s \\u201cPaper Planes.\\u201d\\xa0DiLego\\xa0also began an ongoing partnership with Jesse\\xa0Malin\\xa0(D Generation), and went on to co-write, produce, and play on three of\\xa0Malin\\u2019sreleases, up to the most recent, \\u201cNew York Before the War\\u201d and \\u201cOutsiders.\\u201d\\xa0DiLego\\xa0would continue to tour with\\xa0Malin\\xa0both in his band, and as a performer, honing the songs that he would eventually come back to for hisrecent release.?In the spring of 2016,\\xa0DiLego\\xa0announced\\xa0his latest solo release, Magnificent Ram\\xa0A, and a subsequent signing to One Little Indian.DiLego\\xa0released Magnificent Ram A in July 2016, and is set to tour much of the U.S. and Europe with his band The\\xa0Touristas.'